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Empower Texans
Empower Texans
stated on January 28, 2016 a web page
In 2005 and 2007, " Joe Straus received a 100 percent rating by NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)."
Mostly False
By Filipa Ioannou • February 18, 2016
Gary Cobb
Gary Cobb
stated on February 16, 2016 a video ad on his campaign website
Travis County residents "trusted me to take on Tom DeLay — and we won."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2016
Sheri Gallo
Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 an Austin City Council meeting
Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."
Mostly False
By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016
Jonathan Stickland
Jonathan Stickland
stated on February 10, 2016 a TV ad
Scott Fisher "tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 8, 2016 a 90-page manifesto decrying federal overreach
"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."  
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • February 10, 2016
Adrian Garcia
Adrian Garcia
stated on February 5, 2016 a campaign news release
"Gene Green is the NRA’s favorite Democrat in Congress. ... "It’s no wonder the congressman has a lifetime A rating from the NRA."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • February 5, 2016
Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on December 18, 2015 remarks inserted into the Congressional Record
"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."
Mostly False
By Fauzeya Rahman • February 1, 2016
Joe Straus
Joe Straus
stated on December 15, 2015 campaign video
"Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country."
True
By Eleanor Dearman • January 30, 2016
Paul Saldaña
Paul Saldaña
stated on January 13, 2016 a civic summit hosted by Austin's KLRU-TV
A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar "and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Under Ted Cruz’s tax plan, "businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on January 23, 2016 an appearance in Ankeny, Iowa
"In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016
Jeff Judson
Jeff Judson
stated on December 15, 2015 Conservatives in Action blog post
Texas has the sixth-highest property taxes in the nation.
Mostly True
By Filipa Ioannou • January 22, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 21, 2016 a New Hampshire appearance
"Blue Cross Blue Shield cancelled all their individual (health care) policies in the state of Texas, effective Dec. 31."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on January 12, 2016 response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address
Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 4, 2016 a legal brief
"One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 19, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 remarks at a Florida campaign stop
"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on Meet the Press
Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2016 an interview with The Washington Post
Canadian-born Ted Cruz "has had a double passport."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 2016
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards
stated on December 15, 2015 an interview by actress Lena Dunham
"More than 60 percent of people in America support Planned Parenthood and only 11 percent approve of Congress."
Mostly True
By Emma Hinchliffe • January 2, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 8, 2015 a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz
Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015
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